The Fanara surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 561 people carried this name — #39,212 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 1% from 557 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Fanara surname
A surname from Greek.
Sicilian occupational surname from Greek φαναράς (fanarás, “lampmaker”), from φανός (fanós, “torch, lamp”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Fanara» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 212 people named Fanara live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 159 people named Fanara live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 86 people named Fanara.
Most of them — 64 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
30 people named Fanara live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Glarus.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fanara.
- Falletti 210 · U.S. census
- Fallon 11,974 · U.S. census
- Fallone 313 · U.S. census
- Fallot 138 · U.S. census
- Falzon 499 · U.S. census
- Falzone 2,119 · U.S. census
- Fanelli 4,493 · U.S. census
- Fankhauser 1,537 · U.S. census
- Fanny 167 · U.S. census
- Fanti 312 · U.S. census
- Fantin 319 · U.S. census
- Fantini 580 · U.S. census
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